Ch. 1. Warwickshire childhood 1819-41
ch. 2. Coventry, rebellion, and the Life of Jesus 1841-6
ch. 3. Father's illness and death; interlude in Geneva 1847-50
ch. 4. Marian Evans in London: 143 Strand 1851
ch. 5. Life with Lewes: Weimar and Berlin 1854
ch. 6. Strong-minded woman of the Westminster Review 1855-6
ch. 7. Birth of George Eliot: scenes of clerical life 1856-7
ch. 8. Provincial life revisited: Adam Bede 1858-9
ch. 9. More provincial life: the Mill on the floss 1859-60
ch. 10. Realism and romance: Silas Marner and Romola 1861-3
ch. 11. Politics and poetry: Felix Holt and the Spanish Gypsy 1864-8
ch. 12. Writing Middlemarch 1869-72
ch. 13. New departure: Daniel Deronda 1873-6
ch. 14. Last years 1877-80.
